Scott Morton Ninomiya Once in a blue moon I preach here at SJMC and today that is literally the case in the astronomical sense (it just happened at 4:45 am). I’m so happy to be here, a prodigal son returned to preach at his own church for once. Today I’ve been invited to
Peace Through Truth: Mennonite Residential School Healing Read More »
‘Welcoming’ Peace in Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 The Acts 2 story of Pentecost has not been one of the traditional scriptures Mennonites have turned to when we talk about our Peace position. We turn to the Sermon on the Mount, to the Gospels, to Romans 12, and even to some of the Old Testament
Dialogue #1 – Mark Diller Harder and Don Penner Genesis 18:1-15 (Mark and Don go up on stage and sit on two stools. Have a dialogue) Mark: So Don, this service and the Scriptures we are using evolved in a different way that I had first imagined – maybe a bit like this
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John 12:12-27; 19:16b-22 Dramatic Reading (sermon part 1) What a week it was. I saw people starting to line the streets one day and soon heard the crowds get louder and louder. As I elbowed my way to the front, I saw a man riding on a donkey. Most people were waving palm
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John 18:12-40 We are several Sundays into the season of Lent right now, the 6 weeks leading into Good Friday and Easter, the weeks where we follow the journey of Jesus toward the cross. This year our Lent worship themes and Scriptures have been guided by the worship materials given to us in
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John 12:1-11, John 13:1-17 There is a famous quote about unknown unknowns that came from the mouth of United States Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld in a news briefing on February 12, 2002. He was being questioned about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq and Saddam Hussein with the supply
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